Romanze
Language: German (Deutsch)
Es muss ein eigen Ding sein um die Liebe,
sie wandelt seltsam oft des Menschen Herz:
den macht sie sanft und jenen hart wie Erz,
den kühn, den andern scheu gleich einem Diebe.
Bald mag sie Freude bringen, bald betrüben,
doch es muss köstlich sein, so heiss zu lieben!
In ihr allein ist Wonne nur und Hoffen,
wen sie erfasst dem schwillt voll Glut die Brust
in ungeahnter Seligkeit und Lust,
er sieht das Paradies, den Himmel offen.
Ihm ist erfüllt das Herz von süßen Trieben;
wie muss es köstlich sein, so heiß zu lieben!
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- ENG English (Malcolm Wren) , title 1: "Romance", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 95
Romance
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
It must be a special thing, love.
It often makes rare changes in the human heart:
it makes some soft and some hard like bronze,
some bold and others shy just like a thief.
It can soon bring joy, and soon bother,
so it must be magnificent, to love so heatedly!
Only in love is there happiness and hope;
whoever is embraced by love, their breast will swell with ardour
in unimagined ecstasy and desire.
They see Paradise, heaven itself, open;
their heart is filled with sweet longing.
How magnificent it must be, to love so heatedly!
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- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2008 by Malcolm Wren, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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